Re: [MBZ] Was OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights, now an interesting handgun story sent by a friend
Thanks, Tom, you made my day!! Lovell is another one of my heros!! BTW, I did notice that you capitalized Marine every time. 'Got yourself another ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: "Tom Hargrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:09 PM Subject: [MBZ] Was OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights,now an interesting handgun story sent by a friend #1 Gun rule: 'Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he's too old to fight, he'll just kill you.' Well, here is the proof: The 71-year-old retired Marine who opened fire on two robbers at a Plantation, FL, sub shop late Wednesday, killing one and critically wounding the other, is described as John Lovell, a former pilot for two presidents. He does not drink, he does not smoke, and he works out everyday. Lovell was a man of action Wednesday night. According to Plantation police, two masked gunmen came into the Subway at 1949 N. Pine Road. Just after 11 pm, there was a lone diner -- Lovell, who was finishing his meal. After robbing the cashier, the two men attempted to shove Lovell into a bathroom and rob him as well. They got his money. However, then Lovell pulled his handgun, opened fire, shooting one of the thieves in the head and chest and the other in the head. When police arrived, they found one of the men in the shop. K-9 units found the other in the bushes of a nearby business. They also found cash strewn around the front of the sandwich shop according to Detective Robert Rettig of the Plantation Police Department. Both men were taken to Broward General Medical Center, where one, Donicio Arrindell, 22, of North Lauderdale died. The other, 21-year-old Frederick Gadson of Fort Lauderdale is in critical but stable condition. A longtime friend of Lovell was not surprised to hear what happened. ''He'd give you the shirt off his back, and he'd be mad if someone tried to take the shirt off your back,'' he said. Lovell worked as a pilot for the Marines, flying Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He later worked as a pilot for Pan Am and Delta. Lovell is not married and does not have children. He is not expected to be charged, authorities said ''He was in fear for his life,'' Rettig said. 'These criminals ought to realize that most men in their 70's have military backgrounds and aren't intimidated by idiots. The only thing he could be charged with is participating in an unfair fight. One 71 - year young Marine against two punks. Two head shots and one center-body-mass shot - good shooting! That'll teach them not to get between a Marine and his chow. Don't you just love a story with a happy ending? (Florida law allows law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed weapon.) I checked this out, here are the details: http://www.local10.com/news/13585335/detail.html Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R A Bennell Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights Now, be nice. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:34 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights I've seen pictures of Gary, he's already funny looking. -Curt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:27:34 -0500 From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Nah, I don't think so. Gary would look funny with no arms. Randy ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http:/
Re: [MBZ] Was OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights, now an interesting handgun story sent by a friend
"Tom Hargrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #1 Gun rule: 'Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he's too old > to fight, he'll just kill you.' > > Well, here is the proof: > > The 71-year-old retired Marine who opened fire on two robbers at a > Plantation, FL, sub shop late Wednesday, killing one and critically > wounding the other [...] On the other hand sometimes it does not work out so well. http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=8582594 "Investigators say an attempted robbery ended in gunfire in a parking lot at West 38th Street and Moller Road just after 11 pm Monday. The victim was a 72-year-old Hispanic man who witnessed a young man holding a female friend of his at gunpoint, attempting to take her purse. "The man pulled his own gun in protection, pointing it at the robber. The suspect immediately fired several rounds at the victim, striking and killing him. He was pronounced dead at the scene." I guess the lesson is, if you are going to pull a gun on an armed individual in a situation like that, better just shoot him straight away. Or at least as soon as he twitches in your direction. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Was OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights, now an interesting handgun story sent by a friend
#1 Gun rule: 'Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he's too old to fight, he'll just kill you.' Well, here is the proof: The 71-year-old retired Marine who opened fire on two robbers at a Plantation, FL, sub shop late Wednesday, killing one and critically wounding the other, is described as John Lovell, a former pilot for two presidents. He does not drink, he does not smoke, and he works out everyday. Lovell was a man of action Wednesday night. According to Plantation police, two masked gunmen came into the Subway at 1949 N. Pine Road. Just after 11 pm, there was a lone diner -- Lovell, who was finishing his meal. After robbing the cashier, the two men attempted to shove Lovell into a bathroom and rob him as well. They got his money. However, then Lovell pulled his handgun, opened fire, shooting one of the thieves in the head and chest and the other in the head. When police arrived, they found one of the men in the shop. K-9 units found the other in the bushes of a nearby business. They also found cash strewn around the front of the sandwich shop according to Detective Robert Rettig of the Plantation Police Department. Both men were taken to Broward General Medical Center, where one, Donicio Arrindell, 22, of North Lauderdale died. The other, 21-year-old Frederick Gadson of Fort Lauderdale is in critical but stable condition. A longtime friend of Lovell was not surprised to hear what happened. ''He'd give you the shirt off his back, and he'd be mad if someone tried to take the shirt off your back,'' he said. Lovell worked as a pilot for the Marines, flying Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He later worked as a pilot for Pan Am and Delta. Lovell is not married and does not have children. He is not expected to be charged, authorities said ''He was in fear for his life,'' Rettig said. 'These criminals ought to realize that most men in their 70's have military backgrounds and aren't intimidated by idiots. The only thing he could be charged with is participating in an unfair fight. One 71 year young Marine against two punks. Two head shots and one center-body-mass shot - good shooting! That'll teach them not to get between a Marine and his chow. Don't you just love a story with a happy ending? (Florida law allows law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed weapon.) I checked this out, here are the details: http://www.local10.com/news/13585335/detail.html Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R A Bennell Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights Now, be nice. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:34 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights I've seen pictures of Gary, he's already funny looking. -Curt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:27:34 -0500 From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Nah, I don't think so. Gary would look funny with no arms. Randy ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid - Military industrial complex long term costs
I look at it this way, spending money on military stuff is an investment in security. Like installing a car alarm or home security system. Sure it is one of those things we rather not have to do but that is the situation we live in, until the situation changes I guess we are stuck with having to spend squillions on tools of death. Sure I would like to take away their tanks, planes and give them bulldozers, excavators to build things rather than destroy stuff, sure I would like to take away their rifles and grenades and give them hammers and saws, sure I would like to train them to build and fix rather than teach them to kill and hate but right now we have to face up to the fact that we are animals and will do as our instinct dictates. That instinct dictates that we look after our own herd and do whatever is necessary to ensure our herd survives and that includes having tools that enable us to protect the herd. Or in other words while the herd across the border has tools to threaten us with, we need tools as good as theirs or better. Hendrik Jim Cathey wrote: >> That same investment in most other goods keeps things churning to a >> considerably higher degree than it does for most weapons. >> > > I'm not sure I agree. Other than the cost of the raw materials > that leave the country, weapons expenditures all stay here and > churn like with any other product, such as butter. :-) (Econ. > 101 joke.) > > -- Jim > > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
Thanks Kevin, I am going to pursue this one. It's about 85 miles away, so will go look at it after the holiday. I passed on a 300CD that needed some work and now regret it. Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co Dwight E. Giles, Jr. Wickford RI 02852 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Kraly Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:44 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE Of course, I really don't need it. You may not need it, but coupes are FUN FUN! I wish I hadn't gotten rid of my first NA 300CD! They are so much quieter on the road and handle so much better than the W123 sedans. I like the room in the 1983 300SD, but it just doesn't have that sporty feel to it. Kevin in Hillsboro, OR 1983 300SD 267Kmi, Ursula ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Windows XP is Dead as far as M$ shipping any more copies out. What the Retailers and Resellers have on hand or Ordered before 30 June 06 is it. Free Support goes through 2010 after that it will be Paid Support until 2012. Windows 7 is supposed be released January 09. The team that's working is M$ Old Timers not the Newbies that developed Vista. The kernel is supposed to be 2/3rds smaller that XP and really fast. Also ALL programs that ran under XP WILL run under Win7. Gates knows Big time that they screwed up with Vista and at least are trying to correct the problem. We'll have to see about that. Kaleb, Try one of the Virtual Machine programs like VMWare or Virtual Box. XP Programs work great in them. Russ W. Curt Raymond wrote: > XP will be available through the OEM channel until the first of next year. > They'll probably support it for a year or two after that. Downloads will > continue to be available as they are for Windows 2000 and Windows NT. > > The next generation of Windows is already in production, codenamed Windows 7 > one of its goals is to reduce the size of the kernal dramatically and through > optimization to run better on older hardware. This is something totally new > for Microsoft... > > -Curt > > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid - Military industrial complex long term costs
> That same investment in most other goods keeps things churning to a > considerably higher degree than it does for most weapons. I'm not sure I agree. Other than the cost of the raw materials that leave the country, weapons expenditures all stay here and churn like with any other product, such as butter. :-) (Econ. 101 joke.) -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid - Military industrial complex long term costs
Not being of a military mind I probably got some of the terms incorrect there. Some with more knowledge help me on this. BTY, my nephew makes a pretty good living designing guidance systems for some of the missiles we use in Iraq, and my son is chatting with General Dynamics about possible job openings, so I am appreciative of the general economic benefit of military expenses. I do want to point out the additional cost to our economy of our investment in military preparedness expenses. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill R Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid - Military industrial complex long term costs The main problem with the $$ investment in the military-industrial complex is that there is a difference in life cycle for the capital outlay. When you build a car or a pleasure boat or a 747 it has a life cycle that has a high percentage of churn in the general economy, which is quite different than of a missile or a tank or an armored personnel carrier. It is true that a lot of stuff is getting used in Iraq and Afghanistan [with little returning to the US], but how much equipment just sits [for the most part] in Armories or depots around the country or world until it is obsolete? That same investment in most other goods keeps things churning to a considerably higher degree than it does for most weapons. Certainly most of the personnel costs and general items are not much different, but there is little but scrap use for decommissioned ordinance. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:02 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid I agree on the benefits to our companies through this but I'd guess theres 20-30% waste in this system. Seems to me it'd be more efficient if we could pay the military industrial complex and knock out the middleman. I'm funny like that. Of course all that money just goes kill people. Overall I'd rather see the killing stop to hell with the pensions, they'll find something else. -Curt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:58:12 -0400 From: "LarryT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original You commented <> I don't see a problem with that. I assume you know who owns the military industrial complex? It makes up millions of teachers retirement funding as well as anyone else who chooses to but stock in one of the defense contractors companies. Around 60% of the US population own stock in one form or another. Many own it thru employer sponsored 401k retirement funds but a stock is a stock. The money that doesn't go to pay dividends goes to pay the huge poplation of people employeed by all those contractors. By giving money to Israel we keep them armed and it helps our economy. Few other countries return as much money to us as Israel. I would never suggest we shut down Israels foreign aid - should have said that in my earlier email. There are some countries with very odd needs for foreign aid. As with all generalities - they're imprecise. You also wrote <> Not sure what you mean by that - Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid - Military industrial complex long term costs
The main problem with the $$ investment in the military-industrial complex is that there is a difference in life cycle for the capital outlay. When you build a car or a pleasure boat or a 747 it has a life cycle that has a high percentage of churn in the general economy, which is quite different than of a missile or a tank or an armored personnel carrier. It is true that a lot of stuff is getting used in Iraq and Afghanistan [with little returning to the US], but how much equipment just sits [for the most part] in Armories or depots around the country or world until it is obsolete? That same investment in most other goods keeps things churning to a considerably higher degree than it does for most weapons. Certainly most of the personnel costs and general items are not much different, but there is little but scrap use for decommissioned ordinance. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:02 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid I agree on the benefits to our companies through this but I'd guess theres 20-30% waste in this system. Seems to me it'd be more efficient if we could pay the military industrial complex and knock out the middleman. I'm funny like that. Of course all that money just goes kill people. Overall I'd rather see the killing stop to hell with the pensions, they'll find something else. -Curt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:58:12 -0400 From: "LarryT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original You commented <> I don't see a problem with that. I assume you know who owns the military industrial complex? It makes up millions of teachers retirement funding as well as anyone else who chooses to but stock in one of the defense contractors companies. Around 60% of the US population own stock in one form or another. Many own it thru employer sponsored 401k retirement funds but a stock is a stock. The money that doesn't go to pay dividends goes to pay the huge poplation of people employeed by all those contractors. By giving money to Israel we keep them armed and it helps our economy. Few other countries return as much money to us as Israel. I would never suggest we shut down Israels foreign aid - should have said that in my earlier email. There are some countries with very odd needs for foreign aid. As with all generalities - they're imprecise. You also wrote <> Not sure what you mean by that - Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights
Now, be nice. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:34 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights I've seen pictures of Gary, he's already funny looking. -Curt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:27:34 -0500 From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Nah, I don't think so. Gary would look funny with no arms. Randy ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights
I've seen pictures of Gary, he's already funny looking. -Curt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:27:34 -0500 From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Nah, I don't think so. Gary would look funny with no arms. Randy ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Difference between Vacuum Repair Kits W123
Thanks for the tip, I am sorry that it has taken me a week to followup but I broke my thumb whch has slowed my computer work down. Don't drop a 120lb power supply battery on your thumb. :) Todd > On bimby, there is two vaccum pump repair kits listed, one with rocker > arm and the other with valve? This is a 1985 300CD. For mine, I did not get the rocker arm kit. Just the kit with the new internal piston seal, the cover gasket, and internal check valves. Note that if yours is like mine, there is a check valve inside the pipe adapter fitting where the main vacuum line connects to the pump. Once I had mine open, the pieces of the check valve fell out, and I think this might have been my problem all along. So, you might want to remove that and check it before you order anything -- just unscrews from the pump body so it would be quick to check. Allan -- 1983 300D Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If this e-mail contains protected health information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited,except as permitted by law. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
o Luther wrote: > You need the free server NOT the free player. > > http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ > > Luther > > OK Don wrote: >> With the exception of a few "white box" shops, you can't buy XP on a >> new machine now. However, MS will support XP till 2012. >> I've had very little trouble with either XP or Vista - use both at >> work every day since Vista beta 2. >> I have Ubuntu on the laptop now, but am thinking Mepis is in it's near >> future. >> >> MS does support Linux running on it's Virtual Server product - don't >> know about Virtual PC, but I do konw it works. I still like the VMware >> stuff better though. >> >> Kaleb - run the free VMware on your Vista box, and install the virtual >> instance of XP, run all the stuff you want in it. if you have enough >> RAM, you won't notice the difference. >> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are >>> also not going to support it. >>> > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1532 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 8:32 > AM -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
Of course, I really don't need it. You may not need it, but coupes are FUN FUN! I wish I hadn't gotten rid of my first NA 300CD! They are so much quieter on the road and handle so much better than the W123 sedans. I like the room in the 1983 300SD, but it just doesn't have that sporty feel to it. Kevin in Hillsboro, OR 1983 300SD 267Kmi, Ursula ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights
Nah, I don't think so. Gary would look funny with no arms. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Hurst Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:06 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights all we can do is stay ready in case we someday have to save their lives. and even then they'll probably still say we are maniacs who need to be disarmed! On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:23 PM, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary wrote <> > > Hi Gary - I fear we will not be able to convince the anti-gunners of our > good intentions - > > Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) > www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts > Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil > PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net > 800-583-8601 > Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Gary Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:04 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights > > > > there is a large class of people, larry, who believe as "mama" did that > > the > > "pistol is the devil's right hand" and that simply having a weapon would > > inspire us to become pretty much random rage killers. they cannot grasp > > the > > reality that anyone who can qualify for CCW license is unlikely to have > > this > > poor a level of impulse control as such an individual would have long ago > > been killed, imprisoned or institutionalized, all of which would > > disqualify > > them in any state for a CCW license. > > > > people who just want to kill people in a rage become criminals or police, > > not citizen CCW holders. we aren't going to hurt anyone. honest. > > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:54 AM, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> You have an awfully low opinion of your fellow citizens. Not sure wha > >> you > >> are proposing - more gun laws so people who obey laws will no longer be > >> able > >> to buy them? All tha accomplishes is it leaves the guns in the hands of > >> criminals - because they (the criminal) laugh at any law - much less > >> those > >> that might prevent them getting a gun. Survey after survey of criminals > >> reveal they never go to gun shows or gun shows to get their guns. > >> > >> Besides, if they are willing to commit a crime like robbery, murder, > >> assault, and other physically destructive crimes will not flinch when it > >> come to breaking a law intended to keep a gun out of their possession. > >> > >> You also mentioned a fear of being shot when knocking on a door at night > >> by > >> a homeowner - while it may not allay any of your fears, that kind of > >> shooting is pretty rare - and while we wouldn't want a rare occurence to > >> see > >> you shot, it's very unlikely unless you re acting aggressively. > >> > >> Regardless of what you think, most people are not lookng for someone to > >> kill - if that were the case you should also worry about someone > >> answering > >> the door with a butcher knife or meat cleaver and relieving you of > >> various > >> body parts. Outlaw knives? Better watchout for baseballl bat yeilding > >> homeowners. > >> > >> Your fears are irrational - > >> > >> Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) > >> www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts > >> Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil > >> PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net > >> 800-583-8601 > >> Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs > >> > >> > >> > >> - Original Message - > >> From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > >> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:40 PM > >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights > >> > >> > >> > Yeah, I suppose so, but I better not have car trouble at night and try > >> > to > >> > get help at someone's home either. They > >> > might have to protect themselves or their country if I knock on the > >> > door, > >> > right? > >> > > >> > Unfortunately, my opinion of the abilities of average people is not > >> > very > >> > high. I base that on the dumb things that > >> > I see people do in traffic as well as other silly things that I read > in > >> > the paper etc. Unfortunately, in the USA > >> > those folks probably qualify to have guns. Stupid people are > dangerous. > >> > Stupid people with guns are even worse. > >> > > >> > Randy > >> > > >> > -Original Message- > >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitch Haley > >> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 3:36 PM > >> > To: Mercedes Discussion List > >> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights > >> > > >> > > >> > R A Bennell wrote: > >> >> Hey Larry, I hope you are never shot by a citizen who believes that > he > >> or > >> >> she is defending him or herself or his > >> > or > >> >> her country. > >> > > >> > Around here, you're more likely to be shot by a law enforcement > officer > >>
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Too true. I have no trouble hearing my old 300D! Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:24 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane Well, Randy, I can empathize-but might be time for you to drive a diesel. Dwight Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co Dwight E. Giles, Jr. Wickford RI 02852 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R A Bennell Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:18 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane I am finding that my hearing is fading and I cannot hear the pinging. I remember when I could - my old Suburban used to ping if it did not get decent fuel. My son was commenting that his truck was pinging but I could not hear it. That is sad as one might actually damage an engine just due to getting old. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitch Haley Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:56 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane Tony Wirtel wrote: > I "mix" to get 89 or better octane at lower cost. In my area, > regular, mid and premium are about 4.09, 4.29 and 4.42, respectively. > If the pricing was applied linearly, 89 would not be 4.29 but instead > about 4.20 instead. Saves about $2/tank and takes less than two > minutes more time. The two stations I buy from charge 10c and 8c per grade. I buy my premium from the station that charges 8c. Right now, it's 3.999, 4.079, and 4.159 there. I suspect a 50/50 mix would rate above 89 octane when mixing 87 with 93. I'll keep putting in 40-50% premium until it starts to ping or until the premium in the tank drops to 50%. If I'm still not pinging at 50%, I'll start filling with 1/3 premium. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights
all we can do is stay ready in case we someday have to save their lives. and even then they'll probably still say we are maniacs who need to be disarmed! On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:23 PM, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary wrote <> > > Hi Gary - I fear we will not be able to convince the anti-gunners of our > good intentions - > > Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) > www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts > Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil > PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net > 800-583-8601 > Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Gary Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:04 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights > > > > there is a large class of people, larry, who believe as "mama" did that > > the > > "pistol is the devil's right hand" and that simply having a weapon would > > inspire us to become pretty much random rage killers. they cannot grasp > > the > > reality that anyone who can qualify for CCW license is unlikely to have > > this > > poor a level of impulse control as such an individual would have long ago > > been killed, imprisoned or institutionalized, all of which would > > disqualify > > them in any state for a CCW license. > > > > people who just want to kill people in a rage become criminals or police, > > not citizen CCW holders. we aren't going to hurt anyone. honest. > > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:54 AM, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> You have an awfully low opinion of your fellow citizens. Not sure wha > >> you > >> are proposing - more gun laws so people who obey laws will no longer be > >> able > >> to buy them? All tha accomplishes is it leaves the guns in the hands of > >> criminals - because they (the criminal) laugh at any law - much less > >> those > >> that might prevent them getting a gun. Survey after survey of criminals > >> reveal they never go to gun shows or gun shows to get their guns. > >> > >> Besides, if they are willing to commit a crime like robbery, murder, > >> assault, and other physically destructive crimes will not flinch when it > >> come to breaking a law intended to keep a gun out of their possession. > >> > >> You also mentioned a fear of being shot when knocking on a door at night > >> by > >> a homeowner - while it may not allay any of your fears, that kind of > >> shooting is pretty rare - and while we wouldn't want a rare occurence to > >> see > >> you shot, it's very unlikely unless you re acting aggressively. > >> > >> Regardless of what you think, most people are not lookng for someone to > >> kill - if that were the case you should also worry about someone > >> answering > >> the door with a butcher knife or meat cleaver and relieving you of > >> various > >> body parts. Outlaw knives? Better watchout for baseballl bat yeilding > >> homeowners. > >> > >> Your fears are irrational - > >> > >> Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) > >> www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts > >> Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil > >> PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net > >> 800-583-8601 > >> Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs > >> > >> > >> > >> - Original Message - > >> From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > >> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:40 PM > >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights > >> > >> > >> > Yeah, I suppose so, but I better not have car trouble at night and try > >> > to > >> > get help at someone's home either. They > >> > might have to protect themselves or their country if I knock on the > >> > door, > >> > right? > >> > > >> > Unfortunately, my opinion of the abilities of average people is not > >> > very > >> > high. I base that on the dumb things that > >> > I see people do in traffic as well as other silly things that I read > in > >> > the paper etc. Unfortunately, in the USA > >> > those folks probably qualify to have guns. Stupid people are > dangerous. > >> > Stupid people with guns are even worse. > >> > > >> > Randy > >> > > >> > -Original Message- > >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitch Haley > >> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 3:36 PM > >> > To: Mercedes Discussion List > >> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights > >> > > >> > > >> > R A Bennell wrote: > >> >> Hey Larry, I hope you are never shot by a citizen who believes that > he > >> or > >> >> she is defending him or herself or his > >> > or > >> >> her country. > >> > > >> > Around here, you're more likely to be shot by a law enforcement > officer > >> > who > >> > thinks he's protecting his own ass. I've got a suggestion to you, > don't > >> > come > >> > to USA, break into somebody house and threaten them, and they won't > >> > shoot > >> > you. > >> > > >> > ___ > >> > http://www.okiebenz.com > >>
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid
> Of course all that money just goes kill people. Overall I'd rather see the > killing stop to hell with the pensions, they'll find something else. > > > Thats my point. Its blood money plain and simple. $2bln. It's a scam. There are plenty of places that $2bln could be spent here at home. If they can't survive without us, how/why is that our problem? Israel created its own hole when it started allowing non palestinians (lets not confuse Palestinians as Jews and Arabs are both semetic Palestinians) to migrate en force to its country. Its the same as us letting all the Mexicans in that want to come in and then expect China to pay for it. We no longer need Israel and morally we should not support them in their endeavours. We, with France, already broke international law in giving them "the" bomb. What else to they need from us? As far as the money coming back to our corporations, that is the most preposterous reasoning I have ever heard. Blood money. It certainly only makes the situation there worse not better. -Rolf ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Mitch Haley wrote: > Too bad going diesel now requires buying more truck than most people need or > want. The days of diesel Rangers and LUVs are gone. And now that I think of > it, > the basic full size light duty (F150, Silverado 1500, etc) never did have > diesels that I can remember. A four cylinder Cummins, or a V8 with two > cylinders > cut off, would be great in a F150 sized truck. The F150/Silverado 1500/Ram 1500 trucks will be coming out with diesels in 2009-2010 they've been dragging their feet since they fear it is going to take away from the 3/4 ton + market. John ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
You need the free server NOT the free player. http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ Luther OK Don wrote: > With the exception of a few "white box" shops, you can't buy XP on a > new machine now. However, MS will support XP till 2012. > I've had very little trouble with either XP or Vista - use both at > work every day since Vista beta 2. > I have Ubuntu on the laptop now, but am thinking Mepis is in it's near future. > > MS does support Linux running on it's Virtual Server product - don't > know about Virtual PC, but I do konw it works. I still like the VMware > stuff better though. > > Kaleb - run the free VMware on your Vista box, and install the virtual > instance of XP, run all the stuff you want in it. if you have enough > RAM, you won't notice the difference. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are >> also not going to support it. >> ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Dwight E. Giles, Jr wrote: > Well, Randy, I can empathize-but might be time for you to drive a diesel. Too bad going diesel now requires buying more truck than most people need or want. The days of diesel Rangers and LUVs are gone. And now that I think of it, the basic full size light duty (F150, Silverado 1500, etc) never did have diesels that I can remember. A four cylinder Cummins, or a V8 with two cylinders cut off, would be great in a F150 sized truck. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid
I agree on the benefits to our companies through this but I'd guess theres 20-30% waste in this system. Seems to me it'd be more efficient if we could pay the military industrial complex and knock out the middleman. I'm funny like that. Of course all that money just goes kill people. Overall I'd rather see the killing stop to hell with the pensions, they'll find something else. -Curt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:58:12 -0400 From: "LarryT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original You commented <> I don't see a problem with that. I assume you know who owns the military industrial complex? It makes up millions of teachers retirement funding as well as anyone else who chooses to but stock in one of the defense contractors companies. Around 60% of the US population own stock in one form or another. Many own it thru employer sponsored 401k retirement funds but a stock is a stock. The money that doesn't go to pay dividends goes to pay the huge poplation of people employeed by all those contractors. By giving money to Israel we keep them armed and it helps our economy. Few other countries return as much money to us as Israel. I would never suggest we shut down Israels foreign aid - should have said that in my earlier email. There are some countries with very odd needs for foreign aid. As with all generalities - they're imprecise. You also wrote <> Not sure what you mean by that - Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights
Gary wrote <> Hi Gary - I fear we will not be able to convince the anti-gunners of our good intentions - Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs - Original Message - From: "Gary Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights > there is a large class of people, larry, who believe as "mama" did that > the > "pistol is the devil's right hand" and that simply having a weapon would > inspire us to become pretty much random rage killers. they cannot grasp > the > reality that anyone who can qualify for CCW license is unlikely to have > this > poor a level of impulse control as such an individual would have long ago > been killed, imprisoned or institutionalized, all of which would > disqualify > them in any state for a CCW license. > > people who just want to kill people in a rage become criminals or police, > not citizen CCW holders. we aren't going to hurt anyone. honest. > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:54 AM, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You have an awfully low opinion of your fellow citizens. Not sure wha >> you >> are proposing - more gun laws so people who obey laws will no longer be >> able >> to buy them? All tha accomplishes is it leaves the guns in the hands of >> criminals - because they (the criminal) laugh at any law - much less >> those >> that might prevent them getting a gun. Survey after survey of criminals >> reveal they never go to gun shows or gun shows to get their guns. >> >> Besides, if they are willing to commit a crime like robbery, murder, >> assault, and other physically destructive crimes will not flinch when it >> come to breaking a law intended to keep a gun out of their possession. >> >> You also mentioned a fear of being shot when knocking on a door at night >> by >> a homeowner - while it may not allay any of your fears, that kind of >> shooting is pretty rare - and while we wouldn't want a rare occurence to >> see >> you shot, it's very unlikely unless you re acting aggressively. >> >> Regardless of what you think, most people are not lookng for someone to >> kill - if that were the case you should also worry about someone >> answering >> the door with a butcher knife or meat cleaver and relieving you of >> various >> body parts. Outlaw knives? Better watchout for baseballl bat yeilding >> homeowners. >> >> Your fears are irrational - >> >> Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) >> www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts >> Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil >> PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net >> 800-583-8601 >> Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs >> >> >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" >> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:40 PM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights >> >> >> > Yeah, I suppose so, but I better not have car trouble at night and try >> > to >> > get help at someone's home either. They >> > might have to protect themselves or their country if I knock on the >> > door, >> > right? >> > >> > Unfortunately, my opinion of the abilities of average people is not >> > very >> > high. I base that on the dumb things that >> > I see people do in traffic as well as other silly things that I read in >> > the paper etc. Unfortunately, in the USA >> > those folks probably qualify to have guns. Stupid people are dangerous. >> > Stupid people with guns are even worse. >> > >> > Randy >> > >> > -Original Message- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitch Haley >> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 3:36 PM >> > To: Mercedes Discussion List >> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights >> > >> > >> > R A Bennell wrote: >> >> Hey Larry, I hope you are never shot by a citizen who believes that he >> or >> >> she is defending him or herself or his >> > or >> >> her country. >> > >> > Around here, you're more likely to be shot by a law enforcement officer >> > who >> > thinks he's protecting his own ass. I've got a suggestion to you, don't >> > come >> > to USA, break into somebody house and threaten them, and they won't >> > shoot >> > you. >> > >> > ___ >> > http://www.okiebenz.com >> > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > >> > >> > ___ >> > http://www.okiebenz.com >> > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > To Unsubscribe or
Re: [MBZ] What a difference new wheel bearings make!
Tom wrote <> Additionally, it's waterproof - well... as waterproof as possible. Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs - Original Message - From: "Tom Hargrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:42 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] What a difference new wheel bearings make! > White lithium grease has no business in wheel bearings to begin with > because it won't hold up to wheel bearing temperature. The soap base > will liquify and the oil will go away! This is why the bearings were > loose on both sides and you are lucky that a bearing did not sieze up! > > The correct wheel bearing grease is any one of several high temperature > greases on the market plainly marked "high temperature wheel bearing > grease". > > White lithium grease does have its place - in door hinges, hood hinges, > sun roof slides, door stops, etc. Other greases will not properly > penetrate & lubricate these points because they are too thick & won't > work their way in. > > Tom > www.kegkits.com > > - Original Message - > From: Loren Faeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: 6/30/08 10:36 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > CC: > Subject: Re: [MBZ] What a difference new wheel bearings make! > > "strange yellow wheel bearing grease that had turned brown " That > is the remains of white lithium grease, and why I spend the money for > Molykote BR2 grease, and I will NEVER use lithium on anything for any > reason. > > At 09:02 PM 6/30/2008, you wrote: >>I changed the wheel bearings on the 300D this weekend. I'd thought I >>had a ball joint out (chuckling on bumps, railroad tracks, and loose >>steering, and since I had a torn tie rod boot, thought ball joint). >>Jacked it up to replace it, and checked out the steering and found >>loose wheel bearings on both sides. McParts had bearings, but no >>seals, so had to wait a week after tightening up the lock nut 1/2 >>turn on one side and 3/4 turn on the other side and get a new grease >>cap. They didn't actually look too bad, but I figured that strange >>yellow wheel bearing grease that had turned brown on the bearings and >>the loose seals on the back along with running loose for who knows >>how long meant new bearings. > > Loren Faeth > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1525 - Release Date: > 6/29/2008 3:09 PM > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] What a difference new wheel bearings make!
you wrote <> After doing the WBs on my 78 240D using grease from he dealer, I bought a tub of grease from McParts called Slick50 - same color, same everything. I suspect Slick50 and others are buying something developed by Shell or similar and putting it in their own containers. Seems to be good stuff though - Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs - Original Message - From: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] What a difference new wheel bearings make! > Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've never seen this stuff before, a waxy yellow, didn't look at all >> like lithium. Almost clear. >> >> I've used synthetic grease for 20 years now, and I've not yet had to >> do a second wheel bearing replacement. >> >> The guy at McParts said one shop he used to work for just used >> whatever they got the lowest bid for, in 55 gal. drums. He quit. > > I suspect that's the case with all shops but the dealership, and > conscientious indys. > > The MB grease is green, as I recall. Not sure if it's synthetic. I > think Marshall said it was a military formula developed by Shell. > > Comes in little tubes sized for the job so you don't use too much. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] We interrupt this broadcast
Wow! Ya'll are really making me feel good about my 91 300D with cold AC - for over 2 years everything has worked great. I was telling my wife this AM as she was leaving for work - our decision to buy this W124 was a very good one - we paid $8K but after I did some minor maintanence (serpentine belt, vac pump, etc.) it is *exactly* like a new car. It had 99k miles & I'd buy another if I found one similar - Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs - Original Message - From: "Wilton Strickland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] We interrupt this broadcast > Yeah, I know all about a 124 just needing a charge. > > Wilton > > - Original Message - > From: "Dwight E. Giles, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:37 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] We interrupt this broadcast > > >> Yes a 124 with non working air-imagine that. >> >> Dwight E. Giles, Jr. >> 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. >> 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). >> 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. SLOW LEAK >> Wickford, RI >> >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Alex Chamberlain >> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:28 PM >> To: Mercedes Discussion List >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] We interrupt this broadcast >> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > The 260E might be a good car for Don Snook-no mention of AC in ad. >> > >> >> If they don't mention it, it probably "just needs a charge." >> >> Alex Chamberlain >> pair of A/C-less 124s >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid
You commented <> I don't see a problem with that. I assume you know who owns the military industrial complex? It makes up millions of teachers retirement funding as well as anyone else who chooses to but stock in one of the defense contractors companies. Around 60% of the US population own stock in one form or another. Many own it thru employer sponsored 401k retirement funds but a stock is a stock. The money that doesn't go to pay dividends goes to pay the huge poplation of people employeed by all those contractors. By giving money to Israel we keep them armed and it helps our economy. Few other countries return as much money to us as Israel. I would never suggest we shut down Israels foreign aid - should have said that in my earlier email. There are some countries with very odd needs for foreign aid. As with all generalities - they're imprecise. You also wrote <> Not sure what you mean by that - Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs - Original Message - From: "Rolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid > Israel should stop getting aid! They received 2.4 BILLION in 08 Most > of that money is then spent back with *our* arms manufacturers. So > basically your hard earned tax money is going straight into the pockets > of the military industrial complex and our country doesn't even get the > goods. What a scam. Don't they have their own money? Didn't we invade > Iraq so that we wouldn't have to rely on Israel who routinely breaks > with the Geneva convention and has time and time again committed > atrocities? > > -Rolf > > LarryT wrote: >> Agree completely - we send way too much of our tax dollars to >> questionable >> locations to be used for questionable projects - and usually most of the >> money ends up in the pockets of evil people. >> >> With the exception of Israel, we could stop sending those billionS you >> mention and little would happen. >> >> I'd like to know what all those billions spent have accomplished? >> They certainly don't buy good will. >> >> Of course, IMNSHO, all that animosity is caused by jealousy. >> >> Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) >> www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts >> Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil >> PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net >> 800-583-8601 >> Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs >> >> >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Donald Snook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:54 AM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] GWB >> >> >> >>> Mac wrote: "How can a nation turn on a president because he got a hummer >>> in a closet... then RE-ELECT another pres who has dragged them into a >>> needless and ugly war? No one outside the U.S. understands this >>> disconnect. I am not trying to be rude, but you need to know this is the >>> way it is." >>> >>> I don't agree that the war in Iraq was needless. I do agree that it is >>> ugly. ALL war is ugly. ALL war is awful. ALL loss of life in a war is >>> a >>> catastrophic loss to the world. >>> >>> I don't have the guts to tell the people of Iraq, that the MILLIONS of >>> people of that Saddam slaughtered didn't mean anything. I don't have >>> the >>> stomach to say that the loss of 4,000 american lives was too high a cost >>> to save Millions of Iraqis from the worst dictator since Stalin and Pol >>> Pot. >>> >>> >>> Saddam was hung by his own people, for crimes he committed against the >>> Iraqis. I am proud that American soldiers put their lives in danger and >>> gave the ultimate sacrifice to help Iraq try to choose their own course. >>> I am VERY proud that the people of Iraq got to vote for their leaders >>> for >>> the first time in decades. >>> >>> I am not trying to be rude, either. However I don't know what country >>> you >>> are from, but I will say this. All of these commentators from other >>> countries who say that America is the now one of the most hated >>> countries >>> in the world, and all of the protestors in other countries chanting >>> death >>> to America ought to stop and think about what would happen if the US >>> complied with their wishes for complete self determination. >>> >>> What would happen if the US stopped the BILLIONS of dollars in foreign >>> aid, what would happen if the US decided it would stop forgiving >>> interest >>> payments on outstanding loans. What would happen if the US told these >>> countries that beg for help from the US, that we are tired of being >>> vilified in your press and then also asked for help. >>> >>> These countries that scream insults about the US and chant death to >>> America are like a teenager who screams "I hate you, Dad! Why don't you >>> just leave me alone." Then the
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
The freebie version only works on Servers, not XP or Vista. Technically, you need VMWare Workstation. It has a lot more bells and whistles and is their main moneymaker. You need a hack to get the server version going on XP or Vista (it works fine): http://www.vmwarez.com/2006/05/installing-vmware-server-on-windows-xp.html http://www.petri.co.il/virtual_install_vmware_server.htm Or you can google it if those do not make sense. Once you have it installed, run the VMWare Server Console. Here are some suggestions: Do not reserve disk space when creating the virtual hard drive. Do not split the disk files into 2Gb segments - unless you have an old backup program that won't handle large files. Start off using the suggested parameters. Set Startup/Shutdown parameters: On Host startup - do not start virtual machine On Host shutdown - Shut down guest operating system Once you have activated the OS in the virtual machine and applied all updates (use Microsoft Update - not Windows Update), shut it down and zip or copy the files into a new subdirectory. This allows you to create a new VM without using up another activation by copying the files into a new subdir. If you have a physical machine and you want a virtual image of it - use VMWare Converter (free). It's way cool: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ -Dave Walton On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, downloaded and installed this vmware. Guess I am stupid or what, > but I cant figure out what Im supposed to do next, IE: how it works how > to use it. > > OK Don wrote: >> With the exception of a few "white box" shops, you can't buy XP on a >> new machine now. However, MS will support XP till 2012. >> I've had very little trouble with either XP or Vista - use both at >> work every day since Vista beta 2. >> I have Ubuntu on the laptop now, but am thinking Mepis is in it's near >> future. >> >> MS does support Linux running on it's Virtual Server product - don't >> know about Virtual PC, but I do konw it works. I still like the VMware >> stuff better though. >> >> Kaleb - run the free VMware on your Vista box, and install the virtual >> instance of XP, run all the stuff you want in it. if you have enough >> RAM, you won't notice the difference. >> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are >>> also not going to support it. > > -- > Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK > 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, > 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, > 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, > 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb > http://www.okiebenz.com > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid
Or maybe the oil companies would start drilling in the 80% of untapped drilling fields in deep water. What again was the purpose to keep Iran out of Iraq, what business was it of ours? Short term appeasement tends to lead to long term wars according to history. I am not saying all Foreign Aid is bad, I just think what we are doing in NK is bad. I am also of the opinion that every country should be allowed to have nukes but thats just me. -Rolf Tom Hargrave wrote: > Short term appeasement is always better than short term war. > > For example, we are dealing with the after affects of Saddam's reign now but > we paid him to keep Iran at bay for many years. And back then, Iran was > actively trying to expand & consolidate the entire Middle East. > > The world would be a very different place today if one country controlled > the entire Middle Eastern oil supply. I suspect that $4.00 / gallon for gas > would look pretty cheap! > > Thanks, > Tom Hargrave > www.kegkits.com > 256-656-1924 > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rolf > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:20 AM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid > > Is it? In the Ukraine we give them money to keep the military paid. > Germany has really contributed to this more than the US as they loaned > the Ukrainians money when we (c)wouldn't. > > 20 years ago in Iraq we set ourselves up for what we have today. > > Appeasement is always a temporary bandaid to a much more serious issue, > ask any of Germany's neighbors. > > -Rolf > > Tom Hargrave wrote: > >> Oh, we do that too, all aimed at our long term benefit. >> >> We bribe countries to prevent war (N. Korea) >> >> We bribe countries to prevent the spread of weapons grade nuclear >> material (Ukrane) >> >> We bribe countries to be a stablizing force in a region (Isreal and 20 >> years ago, Iraq) >> >> In each case, the bribe is much less costly than the alternative. >> >> Thanks, Tom >> 256-656-1924 >> >> >> > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 > 7:02 PM > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 > 7:02 PM > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Well, Randy, I can empathize-but might be time for you to drive a diesel. Dwight Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co Dwight E. Giles, Jr. Wickford RI 02852 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R A Bennell Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:18 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane I am finding that my hearing is fading and I cannot hear the pinging. I remember when I could - my old Suburban used to ping if it did not get decent fuel. My son was commenting that his truck was pinging but I could not hear it. That is sad as one might actually damage an engine just due to getting old. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitch Haley Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:56 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane Tony Wirtel wrote: > I "mix" to get 89 or better octane at lower cost. In my area, > regular, mid and premium are about 4.09, 4.29 and 4.42, respectively. > If the pricing was applied linearly, 89 would not be 4.29 but instead > about 4.20 instead. Saves about $2/tank and takes less than two > minutes more time. The two stations I buy from charge 10c and 8c per grade. I buy my premium from the station that charges 8c. Right now, it's 3.999, 4.079, and 4.159 there. I suspect a 50/50 mix would rate above 89 octane when mixing 87 with 93. I'll keep putting in 40-50% premium until it starts to ping or until the premium in the tank drops to 50%. If I'm still not pinging at 50%, I'll start filling with 1/3 premium. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Need 220v-24v transformer with center tapped secondary
>> IIRC back when I worked with electronics, a linear voltage regulator >> was several components on a small board. Has that now been combined into >> one chip? > In about 1975. That and a capacitor or two. >> Probably couldn't afford to generate too much heat in this >> unventilated box. > You screw the regulator to the side of the box. > -- Jim > ___ Thanks, Jim. Gerry ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
I am finding that my hearing is fading and I cannot hear the pinging. I remember when I could - my old Suburban used to ping if it did not get decent fuel. My son was commenting that his truck was pinging but I could not hear it. That is sad as one might actually damage an engine just due to getting old. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitch Haley Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:56 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane Tony Wirtel wrote: > I "mix" to get 89 or better octane at lower cost. In my area, > regular, mid and premium are about 4.09, 4.29 and 4.42, respectively. > If the pricing was applied linearly, 89 would not be 4.29 but instead > about 4.20 instead. Saves about $2/tank and takes less than two > minutes more time. The two stations I buy from charge 10c and 8c per grade. I buy my premium from the station that charges 8c. Right now, it's 3.999, 4.079, and 4.159 there. I suspect a 50/50 mix would rate above 89 octane when mixing 87 with 93. I'll keep putting in 40-50% premium until it starts to ping or until the premium in the tank drops to 50%. If I'm still not pinging at 50%, I'll start filling with 1/3 premium. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Ok, downloaded and installed this vmware. Guess I am stupid or what, but I cant figure out what Im supposed to do next, IE: how it works how to use it. OK Don wrote: > With the exception of a few "white box" shops, you can't buy XP on a > new machine now. However, MS will support XP till 2012. > I've had very little trouble with either XP or Vista - use both at > work every day since Vista beta 2. > I have Ubuntu on the laptop now, but am thinking Mepis is in it's near future. > > MS does support Linux running on it's Virtual Server product - don't > know about Virtual PC, but I do konw it works. I still like the VMware > stuff better though. > > Kaleb - run the free VMware on your Vista box, and install the virtual > instance of XP, run all the stuff you want in it. if you have enough > RAM, you won't notice the difference. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are >> also not going to support it. -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Tony Wirtel wrote: > I "mix" to get 89 or better octane at lower cost. In my area, > regular, mid and premium are about 4.09, 4.29 and 4.42, respectively. > If the pricing was applied linearly, 89 would not be 4.29 but instead > about 4.20 instead. Saves about $2/tank and takes less than two > minutes more time. The two stations I buy from charge 10c and 8c per grade. I buy my premium from the station that charges 8c. Right now, it's 3.999, 4.079, and 4.159 there. I suspect a 50/50 mix would rate above 89 octane when mixing 87 with 93. I'll keep putting in 40-50% premium until it starts to ping or until the premium in the tank drops to 50%. If I'm still not pinging at 50%, I'll start filling with 1/3 premium. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Need 220v-24v transformer with center tapped secondary
> IIRC back when I worked with electronics, a linear voltage regulator > was > several components on a small board. Has that now been combined into > one > chip? In about 1975. That and a capacitor or two. > Probably couldn't afford to generate too much heat in this > unventilated box. You screw the regulator to the side of the box. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid
Short term appeasement is always better than short term war. For example, we are dealing with the after affects of Saddam's reign now but we paid him to keep Iran at bay for many years. And back then, Iran was actively trying to expand & consolidate the entire Middle East. The world would be a very different place today if one country controlled the entire Middle Eastern oil supply. I suspect that $4.00 / gallon for gas would look pretty cheap! Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rolf Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:20 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid Is it? In the Ukraine we give them money to keep the military paid. Germany has really contributed to this more than the US as they loaned the Ukrainians money when we (c)wouldn't. 20 years ago in Iraq we set ourselves up for what we have today. Appeasement is always a temporary bandaid to a much more serious issue, ask any of Germany's neighbors. -Rolf Tom Hargrave wrote: > Oh, we do that too, all aimed at our long term benefit. > > We bribe countries to prevent war (N. Korea) > > We bribe countries to prevent the spread of weapons grade nuclear > material (Ukrane) > > We bribe countries to be a stablizing force in a region (Isreal and 20 > years ago, Iraq) > > In each case, the bribe is much less costly than the alternative. > > Thanks, Tom > 256-656-1924 > > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
> > Some stations (Sonoco?) used to have pumps that allowed you to select the > exact octane you wanted with a lever. In the background, the pump dispensed > a mix of super premium & regular based on the lever setting. > > The 102 octane leaded racing gas I mix with regular works better in my > Corvette! > > Thanks, > Tom Hargrave > www.kegkits.com > 256-656-1924 > Tom, The stations here have button selectors that mix 93 and 87 internally to dispense 89. I "mix" to get 89 or better octane at lower cost. In my area, regular, mid and premium are about 4.09, 4.29 and 4.42, respectively. If the pricing was applied linearly, 89 would not be 4.29 but instead about 4.20 instead. Saves about $2/tank and takes less than two minutes more time. Tony Wirtel ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Antenna installed
You may remember a couple weeks ago I picked up a generic Hershmann (sp) antenna off eBay for cheap, well cheaper than a correct one anyway. Today I finally got around to installing it in my 190D. The install was super easy, you need only conect 3 wires. Of course to do that you have to splice a bit, its not an OE antenna. Took me about 30 minutes all told. The caveat is the antenna goes up and down, theres no middle position anymore. The antenna switch makes it go down when triggered in either direction. For me that is not a problem at all. I'm tickled to have an antenna that goes anywhere. This is my third Mercedes and now the only one with a moving antenna. My thought was to use the bits from the 190D antenna to make the 240D antenna work. Thats possible. I'm reasonably sure I could get it working BUT... I can't mount it as the part that mates to the body is way different on the 190D. I could cobble something together with RTV and spit but for another $50 shipped I could buy another antenna... Which is what I've done. The guy shipped super quick last time though with the holiday I don't expect this one until next week. Thats okay I don't expect to have the car on the road for another week or two anyway until the door handles get here from Wilton and as my check was super slow to get out the door that only happened just the other day. I've still got a rust spot on the 190D to deal with and try fixing the odo that Andrew sent me (thank you sir!). If I can fix that one I'll try fixing the one in the 240D... -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
I only got 2 Curt Raymond wrote: > Got 3GB RAM? Might be worth trying. Any less? No. > > -Curt > > Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:48:33 -0500 > From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I wonder, would turning off virtual memory speed things up? > > Curt Raymond wrote: >> One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than >> 3GB of RAM into it. >> > I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have > like 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and > software package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. > One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit > but apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around > that wouldn't take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for > 64bit upgrades later. Either way I think its coming back to bite them... >> -Curt > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
got ya Curt Raymond wrote: > I already gave you one. Google AVG.. > > -Curt > > Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:51:10 -0500 > From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > got any good recomendations? > > Curt Raymond wrote: >> Thats suicide! Download the free version of AVG pronto! >> >> -Curt > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Ford Question
I also hear that the plug boot can crack and that may lead to arcing to ground. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allan Streib Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:23 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Ford Question Had similar issues with our F150, they have the COP (coil-on-plug) ignition where there is a little coil for each plug. One of those coils had failed so we were running on only 7 cylinders. If that's the problem, need to replace the coil, and the plug. Maybe replace all the plugs while you're at it. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Ford Question/ignition misfire
It is the 5.4 with the COP setup. I hear that there is often a leak over #4 but that would be the back cylinder on the driver's side of the vehicle. The heater hose apparently often drips onto that spot if the clamp is not tight enough. Was looking on a Ford forum last evening. Have not done anything about it yet - just driving the 300D but need to see if I can have a look tonight. Have a scan tool so will see what it says first. Should buy a set of plugs at the very least and install them anyway - but I hear that is not a fun job - especially the first time one does it. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:59 AM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Ford Question/ignition misfire You didn't say which engine, but assuming the mod V8 with coil on plug, we found signs of standing water in one of the plug holes on the passenger side of the engine, almost like the under hood design had funneled water to that cylinder.? Anyway, the crud buildup from evaporating the water was fouling that plug.? this was on a 99 F150, here in Phoenix, where opportunities for driving through standing water are infrequent. Jim In Phoenix ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] US Foreign Aid
Is it? In the Ukraine we give them money to keep the military paid. Germany has really contributed to this more than the US as they loaned the Ukrainians money when we (c)wouldn't. 20 years ago in Iraq we set ourselves up for what we have today. Appeasement is always a temporary bandaid to a much more serious issue, ask any of Germany's neighbors. -Rolf Tom Hargrave wrote: > Oh, we do that too, all aimed at our long term benefit. > > We bribe countries to prevent war (N. Korea) > > We bribe countries to prevent the spread of weapons grade nuclear > material (Ukrane) > > We bribe countries to be a stablizing force in a region (Isreal and 20 > years ago, Iraq) > > In each case, the bribe is much less costly than the alternative. > > Thanks, Tom > 256-656-1924 > > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
I already gave you one. Google AVG.. -Curt Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:51:10 -0500 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: Mercedes Discussion List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed got any good recomendations? Curt Raymond wrote: > Thats suicide! Download the free version of AVG pronto! > > -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Got 3GB RAM? Might be worth trying. Any less? No. -Curt Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:48:33 -0500 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: Mercedes Discussion List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I wonder, would turning off virtual memory speed things up? Curt Raymond wrote: > One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than 3GB > of RAM into it. > I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have like 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and software package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. > One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit but apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around that wouldn't take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for 64bit upgrades later. Either way I think its coming back to bite them... > > -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Your first mistake is considering a computer at Wal-Mart... -Curt Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:41:25 -0500 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: Mercedes Discussion List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed might try that. BTW, walmart has a dell or something they are selling right now that has xp on it OK Don wrote: > With the exception of a few "white box" shops, you can't buy XP on a > new machine now. However, MS will support XP till 2012. > I've had very little trouble with either XP or Vista - use both at > work every day since Vista beta 2. > I have Ubuntu on the laptop now, but am thinking Mepis is in it's near future. > > MS does support Linux running on it's Virtual Server product - don't > know about Virtual PC, but I do konw it works. I still like the VMware > stuff better though. > > Kaleb - run the free VMware on your Vista box, and install the virtual > instance of XP, run all the stuff you want in it. if you have enough > RAM, you won't notice the difference. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are >> also not going to support it. -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] OT: Need 220v-24v transformer with center tapped secondary
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:23:00 -0400 "Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This just in from my son: >> Transformer specs: >> Primary: 110v at 0.5a or 220v at 0.3a >> Secondary: 24v at 20va(.85a) or12v at 20va(1.7a) >> He has 220v coming in with a green ground wire but no neutral, and the >> circuit board is using both 24v and 12v. --- > 1. Go to http://www.premmagnetics.com/20Vstddompc.html, > 2. Scroll down to SPW-613-D, > 3. Click on "Add to Cart", > 4. Click on "Electrical and Dimensional Drawings" and/or "Download a .pdf > of our catalog page" to see what the thing looks like. > 5. Purchase 1 each for $17.99 if desired. > Note that this is a printed circuit mount transformer. You will have to > make some modifications to the mounting and electrical connections if you > have a panel mount transformer. > Craig > ___ Thanks, Craig. That looks like the kind of transformer we were looking for. Suppose I can mount it on it's side and run jumpers from the pins. The dimensions look like it will probably fit in the box okay but will have to check. Gerry. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] OT: Need 220v-24v transformer with center tapped secondary
>> Transformer specs: >> Primary: 110v at 0.5a or 220v at 0.3a >> Secondary: 24v at 20va(.85a) or12v at 20va(1.7a) >> He has 220v coming in with a green ground wire but no neutral, and the >> circuit board is using both 24v and 12v. > > Rather than wind your own, one could take apart a suitable 220->24V > transformer (common furnace part?) and center-tap it. Perhaps less > work, but still a lot. One might also consider analyzing the circuit > to see what it is that wanted the 12V in the first place, perhaps its > needs are a lot less than the 24V, which usually runs 'everything' > in a HVAC control. > > It may be that the 12V is just a feed for a processor power supply, > which could be supplied by a linear voltage regulator or something > like that. Small, is my point. Processors don't usually run on > 12V, so it's not like you'd need to hit that exactly anyway, were > that the case. Depending on the circuit. > > The 'troll' under the stairs has two 12V transformers, because > it needs both 12V and 24V. The 24V is for the sprinkler system > valves, the 12V was immediately regulated down to 5V for the > processor. I only did it that way to not burn so much voltage > as heat. (It's a linear regulator. Later I also added some > significant 12V loads too, for low-voltage walkway lighting. > That was OK, because the two 12V transformers were in fact > from low-voltage lighting kits. But that is irrelevant.) I > could have run it all from 24V, and either put a bigger heat > sink on the regulator or used a series dropping resistor to > knock it down that way. > -- Jim IIRC back when I worked with electronics, a linear voltage regulator was several components on a small board. Has that now been combined into one chip? Probably couldn't afford to generate too much heat in this unventilated box. Gerry ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Sundial is correct. A local chain is doing the same but instead of using a lever, you select one of 6 grade buttons on the pump. The grades run 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 & 93 octane. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitch Haley Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:55 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane Tom Hargrave wrote: > Some stations (Sonoco?) used to have pumps that allowed you to select the > exact octane you wanted with a lever. In the background, the pump dispensed > a mix of super premium & regular based on the lever setting. I think you're right about Sunoco. Was it called Sundial or something similar? Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Tom Hargrave wrote: > Some stations (Sonoco?) used to have pumps that allowed you to select the > exact octane you wanted with a lever. In the background, the pump dispensed > a mix of super premium & regular based on the lever setting. I think you're right about Sunoco. Was it called Sundial or something similar? Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Let me clarify the Korea thing - PCs made in Korea for sale in this country come with the version of Windows we are used to. PCs made in Korea for sale in Korea have the option of using the N version which strips out Media Player. I believe Europe has access to the N version as well. -Dave Walton On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:03 AM, dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The 64-bit editions of Windows Vista—available for all editions of > Windows Vista except Starter" > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/64bit.mspx > > No one is making x86 chips anymore (except maybe Transmeta). Any > recent vintage computer is x64, although many retailers are still > shipping with x86 versions of windows because they have a shitload of > x86 OEM versions to unload. OEM versions do not typically include both > x86 and x64 versions - it's one or the other. The retailer is free to > charge what they want for an OEM x64 upgrade as far as I know. > When I say OEM, I am referring to the discounted Windows package that > manufacturers of PCs are allowed to bundle with new hardware. They are > available individually all over eBay - although technically it > violates the licensing terms, but it will activate just fine. Just > stay away from the ones coming out of Korea. They won a settlement > against Microsoft and distribute a special version designated with an > "N" prefix. > > -Dave Walton > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Really? I'll be honest that I haven't seen a retail Vista pack. >> Remember also that there are what, 5 versions of Vista? I was given to >> understand only one of them (Ulitmate?) came in an x64 version. >> >> -Curt >> >> --- On Thu, 7/3/08, dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> From: dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" >> Cc: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:18 AM >> >> The retail Vista package ships with both x86 and x64 versions and the >> license to run either but not both. Most people stay with x86 because >> there is no upgrade path from x86 XP >> to x64 Vista - it's a complete >> reinstall. Microsoft followed the same licensing scheme with their >> server products. >> >> -Dave Walton >> >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than >> 3GB of RAM into it. >>> I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have >> like 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and software >> package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. >>> One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit but >> apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around that >> wouldn't take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for 64bit >> upgrades later. Either way I think its coming back to bite them... >>> >>> -Curt >>> >>> --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> From: Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista >>> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" >>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:01 AM >>> >>> Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow the user experience often is. >>> >>> I've often thought the same thing, the hardware is orders of magnitude >>> faster, yet Windows itself doesn't seem to perform much better than >>> Windows 95 did on an old '486. Maybe my memory is clouded >>> >>> Where windows really seems to suck is at disk IO. If you have a >>> program that is hitting the disk drive, the entire system slows down, >>> even programs that are not using the disk at all. >>> >>> At work we have virtual servers now, and >> ONE VM doing heavy database >>> work, hitting the disks, slows ALL the other VMs on that host to a >>> crawl. This is with Windows as the host OS. I'm not sure whether >>> Linux would do better, but I suspect it would. >>> >>> Allan >>> -- >>> 1983 300D >>> >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >>> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
I had corporate Norton trough my wife's company, and had some stuff get ny it. I switched to the free Avast! Software and have not had a problem since. Dual boot isn't a problem, by the way. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:34 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista wonder if I could do a dual boot on this machine? I really hate doing that though. One other thing, my norton antivirus corporate version I have will not run on vista, so I bascially only have zone alarm and thats it running. No AV Gary Hurst wrote: > emulation stuff is really too damn slow > > it just sound like he needs to install xp and work from there so he can run > the wis and epc. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> that. Not to mention, half the crap I need to run will not run under >>> vista. I was able to finally get the EPC to run under vista, but the >>> WIS will not run. So I have to install it on a XP computer. >> Consider one of those virtual PC programs. Then you can install >> whatever on whatever it needs, without compromising your 'main' >> setup. >> >> -- Jim >> >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
Some stations (Sonoco?) used to have pumps that allowed you to select the exact octane you wanted with a lever. In the background, the pump dispensed a mix of super premium & regular based on the lever setting. The 102 octane leaded racing gas I mix with regular works better in my Corvette! Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Wirtel Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:49 AM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane >> Well, I think we'll be trying that! I just always figured >> it'd react like that 250C: badly. > > Last time I topped off the 16v, I pumped 5 gallons of 93 octane, then finished > with 6 gallons of 87, which gave me a mix of about 70% premium. No ping noticed > so far. Getting near half a tank again, I'll probably lower the premium content > to 60% today and see what happens. > Mitch: Have tried that successfully with my 300E, ~ 9 gal 87 and 6 of 93. Saves about $2-3 tank compared to using mid-grade ane net octane is higher. Takes less than 2 extra minutes. Tony Wirtel ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finally!
Sounds good to me. Manfred Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:19:11 -0400 From: "Bill R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maybe I could arrange a trip down the next time you have to do it and you could look at my shift patterns while I peel potatoes. BillR ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
Dwight E. Giles, Jr wrote: > Yes, this would be one of three MB's so it would be driven mostly around > town or an occasional road trip. Of course, I really don't need it. That would describe me if I bought the 500SEL euro that somebody 100 miles away seems unable to sell for $2k. It would be fun for the occasional local drive, and would make a great tow truck if I build a heavy duty hitch for it. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
"The 64-bit editions of Windows Vista—available for all editions of Windows Vista except Starter" http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/64bit.mspx No one is making x86 chips anymore (except maybe Transmeta). Any recent vintage computer is x64, although many retailers are still shipping with x86 versions of windows because they have a shitload of x86 OEM versions to unload. OEM versions do not typically include both x86 and x64 versions - it's one or the other. The retailer is free to charge what they want for an OEM x64 upgrade as far as I know. When I say OEM, I am referring to the discounted Windows package that manufacturers of PCs are allowed to bundle with new hardware. They are available individually all over eBay - although technically it violates the licensing terms, but it will activate just fine. Just stay away from the ones coming out of Korea. They won a settlement against Microsoft and distribute a special version designated with an "N" prefix. -Dave Walton On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really? I'll be honest that I haven't seen a retail Vista pack. > Remember also that there are what, 5 versions of Vista? I was given to > understand only one of them (Ulitmate?) came in an x64 version. > > -Curt > > --- On Thu, 7/3/08, dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" > Cc: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:18 AM > > The retail Vista package ships with both x86 and x64 versions and the > license to run either but not both. Most people stay with x86 because > there is no upgrade path from x86 XP > to x64 Vista - it's a complete > reinstall. Microsoft followed the same licensing scheme with their > server products. > > -Dave Walton > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than > 3GB of RAM into it. >> I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have > like 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and software > package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. >> One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit but > apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around that > wouldn't take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for 64bit > upgrades later. Either way I think its coming back to bite them... >> >> -Curt >> >> --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> From: Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista >> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:01 AM >> >> Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow >>> the user experience often is. >> >> I've often thought the same thing, the hardware is orders of magnitude >> faster, yet Windows itself doesn't seem to perform much better than >> Windows 95 did on an old '486. Maybe my memory is clouded >> >> Where windows really seems to suck is at disk IO. If you have a >> program that is hitting the disk drive, the entire system slows down, >> even programs that are not using the disk at all. >> >> At work we have virtual servers now, and > ONE VM doing heavy database >> work, hitting the disks, slows ALL the other VMs on that host to a >> crawl. This is with Windows as the host OS. I'm not sure whether >> Linux would do better, but I suspect it would. >> >> Allan >> -- >> 1983 300D >> >> >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
Yes, this would be one of three MB's so it would be driven mostly around town or an occasional road trip. Of course, I really don't need it. Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co Dwight E. Giles, Jr. Wickford RI 02852 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Hargrave Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:48 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE Not pushrod, DOHC. They are good engines. I owned a 1975 280 and a 1978 280CE. The 75 was carbureted and the 78 was FI. Both preferred mid-grade gas & would diesel when you turned the key off without it. Expect 15 MPG in town and 18 MPG on the road, but like I tell my friends who comment about my Corvette & mileage, it doesn't matter at 50 - 100 miles a week. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:39 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE So this is a pushrod valve train not hydraulics? Star Motors and Shellfish Co. "Shucking but no Jiving" Dwight Giles, Jr Bissell Cove Wickford RI 02852 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Hargrave Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:31 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE I owned one & drove it quite a while. The engines suffer from oil leak issues around the cam carrier and the valves can be a pain to adjust because the adjusters ten to seize up. The correct battery is hard to remove because it has to pulled out at the exact correct angle. Other than these issues, it's just a mix of regular late 70's Mercedes issues. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:21 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: [MBZ] 280CE I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Dwight Dwight E. Giles, Jr. 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. Wickford, RI ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1527 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 6:07 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] always on blower motor 1981 300SD
Bill - Not sure what you mean by the "always on" blower unless you mean that the blower is always running at some speed unless the system is turned off. There is only the one blower AFAIK. I couldn't find any other in the manual either. I had a similar noise in my '81 SD as well and it turned out to be an old dry leaf that had found its' way in there rubbing on the squirrel cage. I did go ahead and lube the one end of the motor, the end that is accessible, with ATF. I have had no new noises since. It is really quite simple to drop the fan motor out on this beast. First you remove the knee bolster and, if it is still there, the closeout panel between it and the firewall. This makes the cover to the blower box very accessible. It is removed via a few screws. A few more screws and the fan motor just drops out. Just be careful of the power lead connector that you don't put any undue loads on it coming out. Reassembly is just the reverse. Oh yeah, note the screw lengths as they are not all the same, at least on mine. I am sending a couple of pages from the manual as well. The manual only shows the LH side bolster being removed but the right side is similar. Barry > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Bill R > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:42 PM > To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' > Subject: [MBZ] always on blower motor 1981 300SD > > A couple of months ago the 'always on' blower started chirping - sounds > like a piece of paper got in there. It stopped for a few weeks, with just > occasional chirps, but has now returned pretty much full time. It > sometimes > stops on turns, but the controllable fan doesn't affect it [a tiny bit > sometimes]. Is this something a rank amateur can get into to get out > whatever the fan is hitting? Any way to snake a wire claw into the vents > to > get at it that way? > > Thanks - BillR > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 83-120.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 180363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20080701/243bd584/attachment.pdf -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 68-150.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 609942 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20080701/243bd584/attachment-0001.pdf ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
got any good recomendations? Curt Raymond wrote: > Thats suicide! Download the free version of AVG pronto! > > -Curt > > Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:34:18 -0500 > From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > wonder if I could do a dual boot on this machine? I really hate doing > that though. One other thing, my norton antivirus corporate version I > have will not run on vista, so I bascially only have zone alarm and > thats it running. No AV > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] California is hands free
In case you haven't heard California has banned anything but handsfree telephone use in the car now. http://break.com/index/hands-free-safe-drivers.html MB content in this one.. -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
No, just manual lifters, not hydraulic. Dwight E. Giles, Jr wrote: > So this is a pushrod valve train not hydraulics? > > Star Motors and Shellfish Co. > > "Shucking but no Jiving" > > Dwight Giles, Jr > > Bissell Cove > > Wickford RI 02852 > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Tom Hargrave > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:31 AM > To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' > Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE > > I owned one & drove it quite a while. > > The engines suffer from oil leak issues around the cam carrier and the > valves can be a pain to adjust because the adjusters ten to seize up. The > correct battery is hard to remove because it has to pulled out at the exact > correct angle. > > Other than these issues, it's just a mix of regular late 70's Mercedes > issues. > > Thanks, > Tom Hargrave > www.kegkits.com > 256-656-1924 > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:21 PM > To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' > Subject: [MBZ] 280CE > > I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body > issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low > production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? > > Any advice is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Dwight > > > > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > > 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. > > 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). > > 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. > > Wickford, RI > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1527 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 > 6:07 PM > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 > 7:02 PM > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Mixing 87 and 93 octane
>> Well, I think we'll be trying that! I just always figured >> it'd react like that 250C: badly. > > Last time I topped off the 16v, I pumped 5 gallons of 93 octane, then finished > with 6 gallons of 87, which gave me a mix of about 70% premium. No ping > noticed > so far. Getting near half a tank again, I'll probably lower the premium > content > to 60% today and see what happens. > Mitch: Have tried that successfully with my 300E, ~ 9 gal 87 and 6 of 93. Saves about $2-3 tank compared to using mid-grade ane net octane is higher. Takes less than 2 extra minutes. Tony Wirtel ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
I wonder, would turning off virtual memory speed things up? Curt Raymond wrote: > One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than 3GB > of RAM into it. > I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have like > 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and software > package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. > One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit but > apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around that wouldn't > take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for 64bit upgrades later. > Either way I think its coming back to bite them... > > -Curt > > --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:01 AM > > Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow >> the user experience often is. > > I've often thought the same thing, the hardware is orders of magnitude > faster, yet Windows itself doesn't seem to perform much better than > Windows 95 did on an old '486. Maybe my memory is clouded > > Where windows really seems to suck is at disk IO. If you have a > program that is hitting the disk drive, the entire system slows down, > even programs that are not using the disk at all. > > At work we have virtual servers now, and ONE VM doing heavy database > work, hitting the disks, slows ALL the other VMs on that host to a > crawl. This is with Windows as the host OS. I'm not sure whether > Linux would do better, but I suspect it would. > > Allan -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
Not pushrod, DOHC. They are good engines. I owned a 1975 280 and a 1978 280CE. The 75 was carbureted and the 78 was FI. Both preferred mid-grade gas & would diesel when you turned the key off without it. Expect 15 MPG in town and 18 MPG on the road, but like I tell my friends who comment about my Corvette & mileage, it doesn't matter at 50 - 100 miles a week. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:39 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE So this is a pushrod valve train not hydraulics? Star Motors and Shellfish Co. "Shucking but no Jiving" Dwight Giles, Jr Bissell Cove Wickford RI 02852 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Hargrave Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:31 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE I owned one & drove it quite a while. The engines suffer from oil leak issues around the cam carrier and the valves can be a pain to adjust because the adjusters ten to seize up. The correct battery is hard to remove because it has to pulled out at the exact correct angle. Other than these issues, it's just a mix of regular late 70's Mercedes issues. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:21 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: [MBZ] 280CE I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Dwight Dwight E. Giles, Jr. 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. Wickford, RI ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1527 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 6:07 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Need 220v-24v transformer with center tapped secondary
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:23:00 -0400 "Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This just in from my son: > Transformer specs: > Primary: 110v at 0.5a or 220v at 0.3a > Secondary: 24v at 20va(.85a) or12v at 20va(1.7a) > He has 220v coming in with a green ground wire but no neutral, and the > circuit board is using both 24v and 12v. 1. Go to http://www.premmagnetics.com/20Vstddompc.html, 2. Scroll down to SPW-613-D, 3. Click on "Add to Cart", 4. Click on "Electrical and Dimensional Drawings" and/or "Download a .pdf of our catalog page" to see what the thing looks like. 5. Purchase 1 each for $17.99 if desired. Note that this is a printed circuit mount transformer. You will have to make some modifications to the mounting and electrical connections if you have a panel mount transformer. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Thats suicide! Download the free version of AVG pronto! -Curt Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:34:18 -0500 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: Mercedes Discussion List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed wonder if I could do a dual boot on this machine? I really hate doing that though. One other thing, my norton antivirus corporate version I have will not run on vista, so I bascially only have zone alarm and thats it running. No AV ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
might try that. BTW, walmart has a dell or something they are selling right now that has xp on it OK Don wrote: > With the exception of a few "white box" shops, you can't buy XP on a > new machine now. However, MS will support XP till 2012. > I've had very little trouble with either XP or Vista - use both at > work every day since Vista beta 2. > I have Ubuntu on the laptop now, but am thinking Mepis is in it's near future. > > MS does support Linux running on it's Virtual Server product - don't > know about Virtual PC, but I do konw it works. I still like the VMware > stuff better though. > > Kaleb - run the free VMware on your Vista box, and install the virtual > instance of XP, run all the stuff you want in it. if you have enough > RAM, you won't notice the difference. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are >> also not going to support it. -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Grrr
Or you could be like me and have many backup cars, except none of them are ready to drive!! OK Don wrote: > That's one of the primary reasons I have multiple cars - I don't lke > having only the one I'm working on - need another one that's running! > Good luck with the wire. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> About half way through the repair on the passenger side of the car and I run >> out of wire... Typical. I've got another spool but its uncoated and I don't >> have any gas. >> >> So now I've got to: >> A. Reconnect the battery (I always disconnect the battery when welding, just >> in case), get the car off the ramps and drive to the hardware store. >> 2. Figure out what the heck kind of wire I actually need... I've had the >> welder a year and this is my first roll... >> >> -Curt > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Really? I'll be honest that I haven't seen a retail Vista pack. Remember also that there are what, 5 versions of Vista? I was given to understand only one of them (Ulitmate?) came in an x64 version. -Curt --- On Thu, 7/3/08, dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:18 AM The retail Vista package ships with both x86 and x64 versions and the license to run either but not both. Most people stay with x86 because there is no upgrade path from x86 XP to x64 Vista - it's a complete reinstall. Microsoft followed the same licensing scheme with their server products. -Dave Walton On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than 3GB of RAM into it. > I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have like 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and software package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. > One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit but apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around that wouldn't take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for 64bit upgrades later. Either way I think its coming back to bite them... > > -Curt > > --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:01 AM > > Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow >> the user experience often is. > > I've often thought the same thing, the hardware is orders of magnitude > faster, yet Windows itself doesn't seem to perform much better than > Windows 95 did on an old '486. Maybe my memory is clouded > > Where windows really seems to suck is at disk IO. If you have a > program that is hitting the disk drive, the entire system slows down, > even programs that are not using the disk at all. > > At work we have virtual servers now, and ONE VM doing heavy database > work, hitting the disks, slows ALL the other VMs on that host to a > crawl. This is with Windows as the host OS. I'm not sure whether > Linux would do better, but I suspect it would. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
It will suck alot of gas, and not have that much power. The euro version is better. Dwight E. Giles, Jr wrote: > I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body > issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low > production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? > > Any advice is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Dwight > > > > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > > 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. > > 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). > > 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. > > Wickford, RI > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Saab humor
I'm somewhat saddend now that I've discovered my welding skills are more or less adequate. I kind of wish I'd bought that Saab 95 I looked at last winter. It needed some fairly major welding but nothing worse than Jim did on the Frankenheap... It was a VERY cool car. The guy still wanted too much ($2k) though. -Curt Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:47:10 -0400 From: Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MBZ] OT: Saab humor To: Mercedes Discussion List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed An a Saab mailing list, a member made the following request: > > I'm looking for a rustfree rolling 96 shell, 1969 or newer. My daily > > driver 1970 96 is starting to get rusty and I fear that from this > > point forward I'll only be chasing the rust. To which another lister replied: > If you can find one of those, could you find me a Unicorn while you > are at it? We're zoned for horses and a Unicorn would be very cool. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
i imagine the valves do need periodic adjusting On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So this is a pushrod valve train not hydraulics? > > Star Motors and Shellfish Co. > > "Shucking but no Jiving" > > Dwight Giles, Jr > > Bissell Cove > > Wickford RI 02852 > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Tom Hargrave > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:31 AM > To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' > Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE > > I owned one & drove it quite a while. > > The engines suffer from oil leak issues around the cam carrier and the > valves can be a pain to adjust because the adjusters ten to seize up. The > correct battery is hard to remove because it has to pulled out at the exact > correct angle. > > Other than these issues, it's just a mix of regular late 70's Mercedes > issues. > > Thanks, > Tom Hargrave > www.kegkits.com > 256-656-1924 > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:21 PM > To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' > Subject: [MBZ] 280CE > > I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body > issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low > production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? > > Any advice is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Dwight > > > > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > > 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. > > 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). > > 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. > > Wickford, RI > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1527 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 > 6:07 PM > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 > 7:02 PM > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
I have not heard that about XP, I heard they were going to support it for a long time, but who knows. I have not researched that. I did buy that 99 microsoft deal that somebody posted about earlier where you could download all sorts of microsoft crap. May try the business version of vista, maybe I will like it better Douglas wrote: > I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are > also not going to support it. So as that fact is coming I am considering > getting a XP disc that has the SP2 on it so it will see the large hard > drives. > > Just a thought.I think Vista is a mistake. I venture that microsoft will > bend toward what has worked in Linux in the future. Though they will never > say that Linux works. > > Douglas > - Original Message - > From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Banned List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "mercedes Mailing List" > > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:30 AM > Subject: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > > >> As you all remember I got this new computer with Vista on it. Well, it >> always does these crazy things, like reading a pdf half the time it wont >> display it, and/or I get error messages all the time. Just things like >> that. Not to mention, half the crap I need to run will not run under >> vista. I was able to finally get the EPC to run under vista, but the >> WIS will not run. So I have to install it on a XP computer. Thinking >> about either custom building me another computer and installing XP, >> upgrading my old computer and ininstall everything, or just get a bigger >> hard drive, then put it in the old computer and ininstall. Or, may just >> wipe the 80 gig drive that was in the old computer and reinstall, then >> let the wife have this new computer. Anyway, my vent for the day >> -- >> Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK >> 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, >> 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, >> 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, >> 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
i've got mine adjusted with "hair trigger" kickdown, so it feels fairly sprightly On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Gary, > I have been lusting after a 300CD but they have become so pricey-there is > one now on Hartford CT CL for 9500. Watched several on e-bay a couple > weeks > ago-ranged from $3800 to $7100. I may have found a nice 280CE-will go > check > it out. Gas mileage is not a concern as I have the two diesels. As for > underpowered-well I just sold my 240D automatic that I drove for five > years, > so the 280 has to be a step up. > Dwight > > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. > 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). > 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. > Wickford, RI > > > i have a rather rough one. i love it as a beater. big windows with no b > pillar. slightly shorter wheelbase. it's a very pleasant car and i > probably drive it more than any other car i own > > a lot of people don't like the us spec m110 as it is over thirsty and low > powered. it is a very pleasant underpowered gas guzzler. > > the real caveat i would have is that if you require a nice one, you will > have to get lucky, especially if you require a nice one cheap. you might > have better luck hunting down a w126 sec. > > > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body > > issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a > low > > production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? > > > > Any advice is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dwight > > > > > > > > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > > > > 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. > > > > 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). > > > > 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. > > > > Wickford, RI > > > > > > > > ___ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
wonder if I could do a dual boot on this machine? I really hate doing that though. One other thing, my norton antivirus corporate version I have will not run on vista, so I bascially only have zone alarm and thats it running. No AV Gary Hurst wrote: > emulation stuff is really too damn slow > > it just sound like he needs to install xp and work from there so he can run > the wis and epc. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> that. Not to mention, half the crap I need to run will not run under >>> vista. I was able to finally get the EPC to run under vista, but the >>> WIS will not run. So I have to install it on a XP computer. >> Consider one of those virtual PC programs. Then you can install >> whatever on whatever it needs, without compromising your 'main' >> setup. >> >> -- Jim >> >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
So this is a pushrod valve train not hydraulics? Star Motors and Shellfish Co. "Shucking but no Jiving" Dwight Giles, Jr Bissell Cove Wickford RI 02852 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Hargrave Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:31 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] 280CE I owned one & drove it quite a while. The engines suffer from oil leak issues around the cam carrier and the valves can be a pain to adjust because the adjusters ten to seize up. The correct battery is hard to remove because it has to pulled out at the exact correct angle. Other than these issues, it's just a mix of regular late 70's Mercedes issues. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:21 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: [MBZ] 280CE I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Dwight Dwight E. Giles, Jr. 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. Wickford, RI ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1527 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 6:07 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 92 300TE
end of sept Robert Rentfro wrote: > Speaking of Regina.isn't about time for her to birth a youngun? > > Bob R > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Wonko the Sane > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 6:12 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] 92 300TE > > Good place for him to sleep when Regina is in "one of her moods." > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, it has most of it's interior removed, and the engine/tranny is >> removed >> >> -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
I owned one & drove it quite a while. The engines suffer from oil leak issues around the cam carrier and the valves can be a pain to adjust because the adjusters ten to seize up. The correct battery is hard to remove because it has to pulled out at the exact correct angle. Other than these issues, it's just a mix of regular late 70's Mercedes issues. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwight E. Giles, Jr Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:21 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: [MBZ] 280CE I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Dwight Dwight E. Giles, Jr. 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. Wickford, RI ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1527 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 6:07 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1531 - Release Date: 7/2/2008 7:02 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 92 300TE
That doesnt seem like a very good deal Luther wrote: > Well, it has most of it's interior removed, and the engine/tranny is > removed > > Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >> tell me about it >> >> Luther wrote: >> >>> I've got a car you can buy for $500 >>> >>> Luther >>> >>> Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >>> you should be honored for me to buy your car for $500 > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250, 66 220SEb http://www.okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 9/11 inside job? ... had it up to here ...
Like I said, we are unlikely to change basic beliefs because of being bludgeoned by email arguments. I have been known, in my younger days long before meeting my darling wife, to be willing to bend a few ideas for someone I was sleeping with ... or wanted to sleep with. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitch Haley Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:21 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] 9/11 inside job? ... had it up to here ... Bill R wrote: > In the entire history of the world there is possibly one or > two people who have been swayed to change their political beliefs because of > such, I'm not sure what made HRC change, it couldn't have been an email discussion. Maybe she fell in love with a liberal professor? She was Repugnant enough to rise to the presidency of the Wellesley Young Republicans, before becoming a Marxist Demonrat later in life. I just looked it up. According to her Wiki bio, Ms Rodham was appalled to see that Nizon's people at the 1968 Repugnant Party convention spoke poorly of her hero, Nelson Rockefeller, and his campaign for president. Some of the people at the convention made racist comments about the rioting taking place in our cities, and more importantly the delegates nominated Nixon. She was so upset over this that she quit the Repugnant Party for good, because they didn't pick her candidate for president. I still think the "went to bed with a liberal Dem professor" theory is more believable. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 280CE
Thanks Gary, I have been lusting after a 300CD but they have become so pricey-there is one now on Hartford CT CL for 9500. Watched several on e-bay a couple weeks ago-ranged from $3800 to $7100. I may have found a nice 280CE-will go check it out. Gas mileage is not a concern as I have the two diesels. As for underpowered-well I just sold my 240D automatic that I drove for five years, so the 280 has to be a step up. Dwight Dwight E. Giles, Jr. 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. Wickford, RI i have a rather rough one. i love it as a beater. big windows with no b pillar. slightly shorter wheelbase. it's a very pleasant car and i probably drive it more than any other car i own a lot of people don't like the us spec m110 as it is over thirsty and low powered. it is a very pleasant underpowered gas guzzler. the real caveat i would have is that if you require a nice one, you will have to get lucky, especially if you require a nice one cheap. you might have better luck hunting down a w126 sec. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking about buying a 280CE. Apart from the usual 123 coupe body > issues, any flags on this engine and drive train? Seems to have been a low > production model. Anybody ever had one? Gary-didn't you have one?? > > Any advice is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Dwight > > > > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > > 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles. > > 1979 240D- auto -250K + miles. (SOLD). > > 1990 300D 2.5t 160K miles. > > Wickford, RI > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 9/11 inside job? ... had it up to here ...
Bill R wrote: > In the entire history of the world there is possibly one or > two people who have been swayed to change their political beliefs because of > such, I'm not sure what made HRC change, it couldn't have been an email discussion. Maybe she fell in love with a liberal professor? She was Repugnant enough to rise to the presidency of the Wellesley Young Republicans, before becoming a Marxist Demonrat later in life. I just looked it up. According to her Wiki bio, Ms Rodham was appalled to see that Nizon's people at the 1968 Repugnant Party convention spoke poorly of her hero, Nelson Rockefeller, and his campaign for president. Some of the people at the convention made racist comments about the rioting taking place in our cities, and more importantly the delegates nominated Nixon. She was so upset over this that she quit the Repugnant Party for good, because they didn't pick her candidate for president. I still think the "went to bed with a liberal Dem professor" theory is more believable. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finally!
Maybe I could arrange a trip down the next time you have to do it and you could look at my shift patterns while I peel potatoes. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MG Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:01 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Finally! Two heads of garlic is easy Bill. I should tell your wife about making Bavarian potato dumplings. For us that means I peal about 25 lbs of potatoes. Not as bad as a couple of hundred lbs but still takes a while. Guess I'm not as fast as I used to was. Still the results are more that worth the work. Manfred Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:00:17 -0400 From: "Bill R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good, Curt. You didn't post a picture of your reminder about not touching hot metal ... . My big discovery of the day is that two heads of garlic peel down to about 50 cloves. And I certainly hope that garlic / onion soup my darling wife wants to make for me will be worth it, or I might request that she stop watching Emeril [as if that would matter]. On the whole pretty good ideas and recipes thus far. BillR ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
The retail Vista package ships with both x86 and x64 versions and the license to run either but not both. Most people stay with x86 because there is no upgrade path from x86 XP to x64 Vista - it's a complete reinstall. Microsoft followed the same licensing scheme with their server products. -Dave Walton On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than 3GB > of RAM into it. > I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have like > 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and software > package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. > One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit but > apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around that wouldn't > take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for 64bit upgrades later. > Either way I think its coming back to bite them... > > -Curt > > --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:01 AM > > Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow >> the user experience often is. > > I've often thought the same thing, the hardware is orders of magnitude > faster, yet Windows itself doesn't seem to perform much better than > Windows 95 did on an old '486. Maybe my memory is clouded > > Where windows really seems to suck is at disk IO. If you have a > program that is hitting the disk drive, the entire system slows down, > even programs that are not using the disk at all. > > At work we have virtual servers now, and ONE VM doing heavy database > work, hitting the disks, slows ALL the other VMs on that host to a > crawl. This is with Windows as the host OS. I'm not sure whether > Linux would do better, but I suspect it would. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
That's because Billy isn't in charge anymore Peter On Jul 3, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: > Probably not as long as the chipset drivers for new computers will > continue to support it which they will for the next year or two > anyway. > > I'm actually sort of excited about Windows 7, the promises are more > sane than anything I've ever heard Microsoft give out before. > > -Curt > > --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Gary Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Gary Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" > > Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 8:44 AM > > but there really is no reason that you can't just happily run xp > for the next five years or so, right? > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > XP will be available through the OEM channel until the first of > next year. They'll probably support it for a year or two after > that. Downloads will continue to be available as they are for > Windows 2000 and Windows NT. > > > The next generation of Windows is already in production, codenamed > Windows 7 one of its goals is to reduce the size of the kernal > dramatically and through optimization to run better on older > hardware. This is something totally new for Microsoft... > > > -Curt > > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:49:14 -0700 > From: "Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > > reply-type=original > > > I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. > They are > > also not going to support it. So as that fact is coming I am > considering > getting a XP disc that has the SP2 on it so it will see the large hard > drives. > > Just a thought.I think Vista is a mistake. I venture that microsoft > will > > bend toward what has worked in Linux in the future. Though they > will never > say that Linux works. > > Douglas > > > > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
One of the great promises of a 64bit OS is the ability to stack more than 3GB of RAM into it. I've talked to guys using one of our video editing softwares that have like 8GB of RAM and they turn off virtual memory. The entire OS and software package cache into RAM and they say performance jumps a mile. One of the big inferred promises with Vista was that it would be 64bit but apparently Microsoft decided there were too many systems around that wouldn't take advantage or maybe they wanted to hit people for 64bit upgrades later. Either way I think its coming back to bite them... -Curt --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:01 AM Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow > the user experience often is. I've often thought the same thing, the hardware is orders of magnitude faster, yet Windows itself doesn't seem to perform much better than Windows 95 did on an old '486. Maybe my memory is clouded Where windows really seems to suck is at disk IO. If you have a program that is hitting the disk drive, the entire system slows down, even programs that are not using the disk at all. At work we have virtual servers now, and ONE VM doing heavy database work, hitting the disks, slows ALL the other VMs on that host to a crawl. This is with Windows as the host OS. I'm not sure whether Linux would do better, but I suspect it would. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 9/11 inside job? ... had it up to here ...
Well, some of us are retired and do have lots of time - not sure how the rest of the active group - especially Kaleb - do it. I only get really tired of it [and yes, think I should just drop the list] when folks post lots of the sort of comment that is made among a group of the same political persuasion, basically a form of "Yeah, all them Democrats / Republicans are just idiots...," Myopic statements without providing solid backing and reasons for it only mirror what is going wrong with our civility and our political life. In the entire history of the world there is possibly one or two people who have been swayed to change their political beliefs because of such, but I have a strong suspicion that not anyone on this list is ever going to change their basic belief system by being bludgeoned with email arguments. I enjoy a difference of opinion, but there really is more than one possible answer to about any question, and it is almost never a question of who is right or wrong. Not even with who will be president. My perspective anyway. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allan Streib Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:16 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] 9/11 inside job? "Harry Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought about leaving the list, then there was an interesting MB > post and decided instead to increase my personal banned list from > two to six. I've thought about leaving this past week as well, it's just sooo much off topic stuff. Especially since the door was opened to political subjects. And yes, I occasionally contribute to that myself, but I have no idea how some of you have the time to post the volumes that you do. You must be on email for hours a day. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow > the user experience often is. I've often thought the same thing, the hardware is orders of magnitude faster, yet Windows itself doesn't seem to perform much better than Windows 95 did on an old '486. Maybe my memory is clouded Where windows really seems to suck is at disk IO. If you have a program that is hitting the disk drive, the entire system slows down, even programs that are not using the disk at all. At work we have virtual servers now, and ONE VM doing heavy database work, hitting the disks, slows ALL the other VMs on that host to a crawl. This is with Windows as the host OS. I'm not sure whether Linux would do better, but I suspect it would. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Ford Question/ignition misfire
You didn't say which engine, but assuming the mod V8 with coil on plug, we found signs of standing water in one of the plug holes on the passenger side of the engine, almost like the under hood design had funneled water to that cylinder.? Anyway, the crud buildup from evaporating the water was fouling that plug.? this was on a 99 F150, here in Phoenix, where opportunities for driving through standing water are infrequent. ? Jim In Phoenix ? ? ??? ___? http://www.okiebenz.com? For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/? For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:? http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finally!
Two heads of garlic is easy Bill. I should tell your wife about making Bavarian potato dumplings. For us that means I peal about 25 lbs of potatoes. Not as bad as a couple of hundred lbs but still takes a while. Guess I'm not as fast as I used to was. Still the results are more that worth the work. Manfred Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:00:17 -0400 From: "Bill R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good, Curt. You didn't post a picture of your reminder about not touching hot metal ... . My big discovery of the day is that two heads of garlic peel down to about 50 cloves. And I certainly hope that garlic / onion soup my darling wife wants to make for me will be worth it, or I might request that she stop watching Emeril [as if that would matter]. On the whole pretty good ideas and recipes thus far. BillR ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
> one of its goals is to reduce the size of the kernal dramatically and > through optimization to run better on older hardware. This is > something totally new for Microsoft... Totally new for them. I won't be surprised if they botch it. I believe the hardware processor race is slowing down, I'm not sure how they're going to make any dramatic leaps forwards, I suspect that work right now is all in parallel cores and the like, which does nothing for straight-line speed like MS so loves to burn up. If they want 'new and improved' they're going to have to start being more efficient. I'm just appalled at now fast the native hardware is, yet how slow the user experience often is. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finally!
Some days I feel like one of the only people on earth that isn't foolish over the stuff. I like it okay but I don't mind going without it either. My wife is allergic to garlic. She overdosed at an Italian restaurant one time and now can barely touch the stuff. -Curt Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:23:19 -0500 From: "OK Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Finally! To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 As someone once said (don't remember who) - everything should be rubbed in garlic, even the chef. > > My big discovery of the day is that two heads of garlic peel down to about > 50 cloves. And I certainly hope that garlic / onion soup my darling wife > wants to make for me will be worth it, or I might request that she stop > watching Emeril [as if that would matter]. On the whole pretty good ideas > and recipes thus far. > BillR -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." -Benjamin Disraeli and/or Mark Twain '90 300D (Rattled), '92 300D (Saber), ' '81 240D (Gramps), '97 Ply Grand Voyager (Vincent van-go) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] OT: Saab humor
An a Saab mailing list, a member made the following request: > > I'm looking for a rustfree rolling 96 shell, 1969 or newer. My daily > > driver 1970 96 is starting to get rusty and I fear that from this > > point forward I'll only be chasing the rust. To which another lister replied: > If you can find one of those, could you find me a Unicorn while you > are at it? We're zoned for horses and a Unicorn would be very cool. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
Probably not as long as the chipset drivers for new computers will continue to support it which they will for the next year or two anyway. I'm actually sort of excited about Windows 7, the promises are more sane than anything I've ever heard Microsoft give out before. -Curt --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Gary Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Gary Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 8:44 AM but there really is no reason that you can't just happily run xp for the next five years or so, right? On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: XP will be available through the OEM channel until the first of next year. They'll probably support it for a year or two after that. Downloads will continue to be available as they are for Windows 2000 and Windows NT. The next generation of Windows is already in production, codenamed Windows 7 one of its goals is to reduce the size of the kernal dramatically and through optimization to run better on older hardware. This is something totally new for Microsoft... -Curt Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:49:14 -0700 From: "Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are also not going to support it. So as that fact is coming I am considering getting a XP disc that has the SP2 on it so it will see the large hard drives. Just a thought.I think Vista is a mistake. I venture that microsoft will bend toward what has worked in Linux in the future. Though they will never say that Linux works. Douglas ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Need 220v-24v transformer with center tapped secondary
> Transformer specs: > Primary: 110v at 0.5a or 220v at 0.3a > Secondary: 24v at 20va(.85a) or12v at 20va(1.7a) > He has 220v coming in with a green ground wire but no neutral, and the > circuit board is using both 24v and 12v. Rather than wind your own, one could take apart a suitable 220->24V transformer (common furnace part?) and center-tap it. Perhaps less work, but still a lot. One might also consider analyzing the circuit to see what it is that wanted the 12V in the first place, perhaps its needs are a lot less than the 24V, which usually runs 'everything' in a HVAC control. It may be that the 12V is just a feed for a processor power supply, which could be supplied by a linear voltage regulator or something like that. Small, is my point. Processors don't usually run on 12V, so it's not like you'd need to hit that exactly anyway, were that the case. Depending on the circuit. The 'troll' under the stairs has two 12V transformers, because it needs both 12V and 24V. The 24V is for the sprinkler system valves, the 12V was immediately regulated down to 5V for the processor. I only did it that way to not burn so much voltage as heat. (It's a linear regulator. Later I also added some significant 12V loads too, for low-voltage walkway lighting. That was OK, because the two 12V transformers were in fact from low-voltage lighting kits. But that is irrelevant.) I could have run it all from 24V, and either put a bigger heat sink on the regulator or used a series dropping resistor to knock it down that way. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
but there really is no reason that you can't just happily run xp for the next five years or so, right? On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XP will be available through the OEM channel until the first of next year. > They'll probably support it for a year or two after that. Downloads will > continue to be available as they are for Windows 2000 and Windows NT. > > The next generation of Windows is already in production, codenamed Windows > 7 one of its goals is to reduce the size of the kernal dramatically and > through optimization to run better on older hardware. This is something > totally new for Microsoft... > > -Curt > > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:49:14 -0700 > From: "Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are > also not going to support it. So as that fact is coming I am considering > getting a XP disc that has the SP2 on it so it will see the large hard > drives. > > Just a thought.I think Vista is a mistake. I venture that microsoft will > bend toward what has worked in Linux in the future. Though they will never > say that Linux works. > > Douglas > > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista
XP will be available through the OEM channel until the first of next year. They'll probably support it for a year or two after that. Downloads will continue to be available as they are for Windows 2000 and Windows NT. The next generation of Windows is already in production, codenamed Windows 7 one of its goals is to reduce the size of the kernal dramatically and through optimization to run better on older hardware. This is something totally new for Microsoft... -Curt Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:49:14 -0700 From: "Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT I think I hate vista To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I think that I read that microsoft is going to eliminate XP soon. They are also not going to support it. So as that fact is coming I am considering getting a XP disc that has the SP2 on it so it will see the large hard drives. Just a thought.I think Vista is a mistake. I venture that microsoft will bend toward what has worked in Linux in the future. Though they will never say that Linux works. Douglas ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT Supreme Court upholds gun rights
> Nah, jim ignores me unless I say something unkind about the frankenheap I'm ignoring you now! :-) -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Grrr
I do have multiple cars, just for stupid reasons I don't have the 240D on the road yet... -Curt --- On Wed, 7/2/08, OK Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: OK Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Grrr To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 10:45 PM That's one of the primary reasons I have multiple cars - I don't lke having only the one I'm working on - need another one that's running! Good luck with the wire. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About half way through the repair on the passenger side of the car and I run out of wire... Typical. I've got another spool but its uncoated and I don't have any gas. > > So now I've got to: > A. Reconnect the battery (I always disconnect the battery when welding, just in case), get the car off the ramps and drive to the hardware store. > 2. Figure out what the heck kind of wire I actually need... I've had the welder a year and this is my first roll... > > -Curt -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." -Benjamin Disraeli and/or Mark Twain '90 300D (Rattled), '92 300D (Saber), ' '81 240D (Gramps), '97 Ply Grand Voyager (Vincent van-go) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finally!
Let me hasten to add that if you do that you had better rub the chef's spouse in it also, or the gene pool will be thinned. BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of OK Don Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:23 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Finally! As someone once said (don't remember who) - everything should be rubbed in garlic, even the chef. > > My big discovery of the day is that two heads of garlic peel down to about > 50 cloves. And I certainly hope that garlic / onion soup my darling wife > wants to make for me will be worth it, or I might request that she stop > watching Emeril [as if that would matter]. On the whole pretty good ideas > and recipes thus far. > BillR -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." -Benjamin Disraeli and/or Mark Twain '90 300D (Rattled), '92 300D (Saber), ' '81 240D (Gramps), '97 Ply Grand Voyager (Vincent van-go) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
